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Whirlpool MW8550XL Use And Care Manual

Whirlpool microwave oven use and care guide mw8550xl, mw8600xl

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Microwave
Oven
Models MW8550XL and MW8600XL
Vents (Not Shown)
Control
Panel
Model
and Serial
Number
Plate
El-Level
Cooklng
Rack
(Model
MW8600XL
only)
Control
Panel ON/OFF
Switch
(not shown)
Copy
Your Model
and Serial Numbers
Here
If you need
service,
or call with a question,
have this
Information
ready:
Model
Number
1 Complete
Model
and Serial Numbers
(from the plate
just
behind
the microwave
oven door on the oven frame).
2. Purchase
date from sales slip (or date installed).
Copy
this information
in these spaces.
Keep this book,
Serial
Number
Purchase/lnslallatlon
Date
your warranty
and sales slip together
in a handy
place.
SerVlCe Company
and Phone Number

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Summary of Contents for Whirlpool MW8550XL

  • Page 1 Microwave Models MW8550XL and MW8600XL Copy Your Model and Serial Numbers If you need service, or call with a question, Information ready: 1 Complete Model and Serial Numbers behind the microwave oven door on the oven frame). 2. Purchase date from sales slip (or date installed).
  • Page 2 Fill out and return the “Mlcrowave tratlon Card”attached the cord is missrng, please Electn- pnd serial number of your microwave with your name and address Whirlpool Corporation 1375 Microwave Registration Admintstratrve Center 2000 US 33 North Benton Harbor, Michigan This information...
  • Page 3 Proper, safe use Your microwave must be... Installed according to the installation instructions. Protected from the weather. Used only for jobs expected of home micro- wave ovens. NEVER start the oven when it’s empty. The oven can be damaged. Used only by people properly Kept clean and in good...
  • Page 4 Using your microwave oven MICROWRVE OVEN CONTROLS When You first plug in the oven, the Display WIII show “88:88”irthe Control Panel ON/OFF swatch IS ON (see page 5). If the Display again shows all 8’s, it means your electricity was off for a while or that the Control ON! OFF Switch was turned OFF and then back...
  • Page 5 USING THE MINUTE The Minute Timer does not start or stop cooking; minutes or seconds and you will hear a beep must be closed before setting DO THIS... MINUTE TIMER. Touch Touch Number Pads for minutes and seconds. Touch START. The Minute Timer can be used when the oven is cooking.
  • Page 6 COOKING IN ONE CYCLE Follow these steps to cook at one power HIGH COOK POWER DO THIS... Put food in the oven and close the door. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want. LOWER COOK POWERS For best results, some recipes slows the cooking The lower the Cook Power, the slower the cookrng...
  • Page 7 DO THIS... Put food in the oven and close the door. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want. Touch COOK POWER. Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want. Touch START. THIS HAPPENS... The COOK CYCLE 1 Signal Light will come on and the Display The Display...
  • Page 8: Defrosting

    DEFROSTING Use DEFROST CYCLE to thaw frozen food before check the guide on the inside of the oven door or In your MICRO MENUS DO THIS... Put frozen food in the oven and close the door. Touch DEFROST CYCLE. Touch Number Pads for the defrosting time you...
  • Page 9 COOKING IN MORE THAN ONE CYCLE For best results, some recrpes and another Cook Power for another from one to the other, automattcally. DO THIS... Put food in the oven and close the door. Touch COOK CYCLE 1. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you...
  • Page 10 COOKING IN MORE THAN ONE CYCLE Touch COOK POWER. (If you want the high Cook Power, skip to step IO.) Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want in the second cycle. 10. Touch START. CONTINUED The COOK POWER Srgnal Lrght WI/I come and the Drsplay WIII show 2 O’s When you touch START, the COOK CYCLE 1...
  • Page 11 COOKING AUTOMATICALLY The controls can be set so the mlcrowave the Cook Cycles you have touched DO THIS... Put frozen food in the oven and close the door. Touch DEFROST CYCLE. Touch Number Pads for defrosting time you want. Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you...
  • Page 12 COOKING AUTOMATICALLY AFTER DEFROSTING Touch a Number Pad for the Cook Power you want in the first cooking cycle. Touch COOK CYCLE 2. (Option: Touch START if cooking in only one cycle after defrosting.) Touch Number Pads for the cooking time you want in the second cooking...
  • Page 13 Standlng tlme provides more even defrostlng and cooklng because It allows food temperature to even out. To sklp the automatic standlng tlme: Instruct the microwave oven to defrost tn DEFROST CYCLE and to cook In COOK CYCLE 2 When the defrost time ends, the microwave oven automatically the same amount of time used for...
  • Page 14 COOKING WITH THE TEMP ERATURE PROBE The MEAL SENSOR Temperature larger casseroles. The probe IS desrgned temperature you want. For suggested MENUS Cookbook Final food temperature settrngs are printed DO THIS... Insert at least 1 , of the temperature probe Into the food DO THIS...
  • Page 15 Touch START. HINTS FOR USING THE TEMPERATURE PROBE DO... use hot pads when removing food or food from oven unplug probe from socket to turn off oven lrght stir foods during cooking when recommended stir soups. casseroles and drinks before servrng cover roasts with toll and let stand a few...
  • Page 16: Other Operating

    CHANGING OR CANCELLING INSTRUCTIONS To change or cancel any lnstructlons instructrons WIII be cancelled If you want to change or cancel touch In the new instructions OTHER OPERATING HINTS These are a number of things you can do with your mrcrowave reminders Others WIII be mentioned 1 To double...
  • Page 17: Bi-Level Cooking

    BI-LEVEL COOKING RACK (Model Use the Br-Level Cooking can be turned upslde-down the MICRO MENUS’ Cookbook First Posltlon: Use the rack only when heating more than one container of food. Do not let a container touch the top of the oven.
  • Page 18 _ I.MPORT?LNT INFORMATION start using your rnlcrowave Before /nformot/on w/l help yo;&oid domoge Metallic Trim Metolllc Glaze Cookrng In metal containers To tesf u dish for scVe use, can damage the oven. So into the oven with a cup of can contarners with hldden water beslde...
  • Page 19 Rough or harsh cleaners DO NOT store things In the can scratch or dull the oven oven frnlsh. DO NOT USE THEM. Make popcorn only in Liquids heated containers poppers designed for use In microwave ovens. The liquid Follow popper drrections.
  • Page 20 HOW MICROWWE OVENS WORK Mtcrowave ovens are safe. Microwave make its own heat, and it’s this heat that cooks the food Oven .Cavity A magnetron Mrcrowaves are lake TV wave waves or lrght waves microwaves. can’t see them, but you can move into the oven where see what they do they are scattered...
  • Page 21 Is the Cook Temperature perature you want7 Do you have the correct oven? See page company If you need assistance Call the Whirlpool sistance telephone number. Contlnental U.S..(800) 253- 130 1 down Mlchlgan .
  • Page 22: If You Need Service

    If you need service ’ . . . Whirlpool nationwide work of franchised TECH-CARE service technicians trained ~RAHCHISED SERVICE product and provide warranty service, anywhere in the States. To locate TECH-CARE service area, call our COOL-LINE service telephone number (see Step 2) or look in your...

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